A recent survey by the World Health Organization shows tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of using direct tobacco, while more than 600,000 deaths are the result of non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke. These numbers will continue to rise until people are fully aware of the dangers of using tobacco. Smoking is the main cause of many diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, and others. Moreover, smoking is not only the directly negative impact on smokers but also affects indirectly, causing harm to non-smoking. Therefore, smoking cessation is an important issue and should be taken immediately to protect human health.
Overall, 42 million US adults and about 3 million middle and high school students smoke. Most people are smoking when they are teenagers, and smoking has become a habit during their teenagers, so smoking cessation is not easy to implement and requires people who stop smoking to have enough determination to quit. Some people try to quit, and then they return to smoking again because smoking is such a strong addiction. Others completely stop smoking, but they return to smoke because they work or live in the environment where their co-workers, friends, and relatives smoke. People have many different reasons to smoke.
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For examples, smoking causes peripheral vascular, lung cancer, and unborn babies and damages your gum and teeth. I think smoking is a habit, and it is hard to break. Although the availability of an array of pharmacologic interventions to help them quit, most them who continue to smoke will die from a tobacco-related cause. Every year, tobacco kills people more than HIV, drug and alcohol abuse, murders and car accidents combined; Secondhand smoke accounts for approximately 50,000 deaths in the United